Spatially resolved study of backscattering in the quantum spin Hall state

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1-9

  König, Markus ^a,b   Baenninger, Matthias ^a,b   Garcia, Andrei G F ^a   Harjee, Nahid ^c   Pruitt, Beth L ^c   Ames, C ^d   Leubner, Philipp ^d   Brüne, Christoph ^d   Buhmann, Hartmut ^d   Molenkamp, Laurens W ^d   Goldhaber Gordon, David ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mesoscopics; Topological insulators

Indexed keywords

MESOSCOPICS; POTENTIAL FLUCTUATIONS; QUANTUM SPIN HALLS; SCANNING GATE MICROSCOPY; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; SUBMICRON SCALE; THEORETICAL MODELING; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS;

ELECTRIC INSULATORS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SCATTERING;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84883539063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.021003     Document Type: Article

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